The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-05-28
Compiled Jor The Arkansdw TrGUeier. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

The reptiles Of Brazil are now re- ported by Prof. E. D. Cope to num- Der sixty-two species (twelve being newly discovered), of which eighteen are batrachians, fifteen lizards, and twenty mine snakes.
 The red stars above the ninth mag nitude have been catalogued by MT. G. F. Chambers after sixteen years of labor. The list gives I'll stars as dis tinctly reddish or orange, of which not more than dozen are really ruby or carmine.
 The total eclipse of the sun on August 19 will be visible all over Russia from the Baltic to eastern Si- beria. Astromers from the United States, England, Russia, Germany, Italy and France are arranging to ob- serve the phenomenon from at least five different stations.
 The bone caves at Mentone, France, are most remarkable tombs of the ami mals of an earlier age. M. A. Gaudry reports that the six caverns once in- habited by quaternary man have yielded no less than 840,000 fragments of ancient animals, belonging to III species of vertebrates and I'll species of invertebrates.
 Irregularity of the pulse is not an alarming symptom, as many suppose. In a lecture to the Royal College of Physicians, London, Dr. W. H. Broad bent stated that it may occur in per feet health up to extreme old age Another common error is the belief that the tension of mans pulse may indicate the vigor of his body or mind.
 Monkeys are the only animals beside man that have acquired the so-called morphia habit. One monkey, like his master, fell into state of stupor and depression when deprived of an opium smoke for several days. To rabbits, however, morphia has been admins tered in enormous doses for months reaching eight grains daily-and sud- denly suppressed without evidence of discomfort.
 The differences in temperature to which the human system accommo- dates itself without injury to health are astonishing. Sir John Herschel has recorded temperature of 159 de- grees F. at the Cape of Good Hope, while Gorochow found in Siberia a cold of -S1 degrees. With certain precautions these climate extremes are borne safety, and through all the changes the body retains its normal temperature of 9S.5 degrees.
 Light for Royalty.-The largest permanent electric light installation ever placed in a single building is probably that which has been for some months in operation at the win ter palace of the ear of Russia. The interior is illuminated by 12,OO0 in- candescent lamps, and the exterior by tifty-six powerful arcs. The dynamos, including reserve machines, number twenty six and the eight engines are capable of developing 2,500 horse power. The apparatus is of the Sic men and Halske type.
 Seeing Sounds.-A number of per- sons have been known to possess the singular faculty of hearing sounds as colors. Galton mentions case in which whole language was devel- opcd for translating colors into sound and back again, so that the individual so gifted could read words out of a small pattern, or paint a pattern to order to represent word. In an in- teresting case lately brought before a Paris society the peculiarity is hered- itary and has been transmitted from father to son and daughter. The vowel and the consonant sounds call up colors on which the father and daughter are quite closely agreed, whilssIhe num- erals have distinct colors (Which are entirely different to the two persons.
 Lunar Probabilities weather predictions of the early part of the early part of the century were fur nished by the almanacs according to a table constructed on philosophical principles" This table simply showed A